Jack Ewing: MUNICH — In 1987, a recent engineering graduate named Norbert Reithofer wrote a treatise that in retrospect reads like a manifesto for the German economy. The only way manufacturers in a high-cost country with few natural resources could survive, he argued, was by becoming the most flexible and efficient in the world. Mr. … Continue reading “here in the United States we don’t have problems. We have challenges. And every challenge is an opportunity.”